Intermediate Unit Budget Presented In East Penn

January 29, 1986|by MELANIE DEVAULT, The Morning Call

East Penn school directors spent most of Tuesday night's meeting dealing with the district's affiliate institutions.

The Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit's 1986-87 operational budget was introduced and summarized by East Penn Superintendent William J. Leary Jr. The district's estimated share of the $754,370 proposed IU operational budget is $48,573 - an increase to the district of $2,049, or 4.41 percent over the current school year.

The board will discuss and take action on the budget at it February meeting. All districts in the IU vote on the operational budget.

In another affiliate matter, Ruth Knepper, East Penn's representative to Lehigh County Community College, gave an update on the college.

She said the college is aggressively seeking grants, offering concentrated spring classes and "trying to make the community college available to people through any means we can."

In another matter, Leary announced that the district will be sending home "needs assessment surveys" with elementary school children's report cards tomorrow. The surveys deal with latch-key children and child-care needs.

Leary stressed the importance of each family's returning a completed survey. Investigating these areas was one of the district's goals for this school year.

In other matters, the board:

- Appointed Lori Hoin as a remedial assistant to provide remedial service for the two parochial schools in the district boundaries (St. Ann's in Emmaus and St. Thomas More in Salisbury Township), effective Wednesday. Dr. Richard Brothers, director of curriculum and instruction, said U.S. Supreme Court decision of last July mandated the service to parochial schools. A portable classroom-school bus, paid for with federal Chapter 1 funds, will be used as a teaching station.

- Granted tenure to Wendy Didra, Emmaus Junior High School art teacher (a temporary professional employee) and announced that the following teachers, contingent upon a satisfactory rating, will be eligible for tenure at the end of the school year: Kay Wolfe, Shoemaker; Carolyn Dinsmore, Kings Highway; Kathy Givens, Jefferson; Sondra MacEwan and Jon Young, Wescosville; Jack Decker, Lincoln; Ava Killingsworth, Deirdre Thorp and Susan Unger, Emmaus Junior High; Ray Oswald and Louise Torres, Emmaus High.